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Oh old blog is bioenergeticaconvicen.com which is in a wordpress.com bioenergeticaconvicen.wordpress.com .. it's migrated to www.biomayeutika.org .

Unfortunately old site is wordpress.com ... any suggestions? Thanks!!

Thanks very much Kurt!

One last thing. What is the best way to do this canonical stuff with wordpress sites?

If I understood it correctly, I have to

a) set up canonical tags on both the new and the old site pointing to the new page

b) copy content from old site to old site

c) set 301,'s from old site to new site from each and every URL to the new one.

Any good doc to help me?

You have a Good answer anyway!

Thanks!

Hi,

but do I have to keep paying for the domain? Do I delete the contents? It's really difficult, because some rankings are from the blog. I don't know, Im still confused.

Hey!

My old website was a personal project of Bioenergetics with a design I didnt like and not-so-good information structure, but it ranks pretty well nevertheless because there is a lot of text and people would come there through my facebook marketing. I no longer maintain it, because now my personal project has developed into Biomayeutika, which I run with 2 more people. It's no longer "bioenergetics with Vicen", but biomayeutika or bio+ as we affectionate call it.

There's a lot of text that ranks pretty well in the old site bioenergeticaconvicen.com

As I see it now, I have several choices, but I don't know which one to choose.

a) keep the old site as it is and 301' bioenergeticaconvicen.com ---> www.biomayeutika.org Can I do that? With wordpress plugins maybe?

b) keep it as it is. Visitors to the old site get this message saying this domain is no longer maintained and my new website is www.biomayeutika.org, but I fear I might lose some people and anyway I thought you could somehow "merge" the rankings of the two

c) Delete the content and domain of the oldsite and somehow move it to my new one.

d) Other options?

The thing is, I haven't 301' before and I am a little confused. My idea is to try to rank higher for my main website, biomayeutika.org, but I don't know if google just "deletes" the contents of the old one and how the rankigs for some words would be affected....

I hope I made myself clearer this time. The problem is surely my lack of knowledge in this field. Thanks!

Hi there!

I am the proud webmaster of two websites, my old one: bioenergeticaconvicen.wordpress.com, currently with decent  rankings in Google Spain (as bioenergeticaconvicen.com without the www, if i am not mistaken) on keywords like "Bioenergetica", "bioenergetica barcelona" "formacion en bioenergetica" "bioenergetica transpersonal" -You got the idea. and my new one, "www.biomayeutika.org" , wordpress as well, with somehow decent rankings on "centro de bioenergetica" "bioenergetica" etc. It's a health an spiritual business: we dance, breath and mainly just feel our bodies without trying to control anything that happens. Cool

It's a very local business, aiming mostly for people from Barcelona/Catalonia but also for people from the rest of Spain.

a) I guess my main question is just how to pass the old "SEO juice" to the new website. Currently, there's just a link on the old one pointing to the new one.

b) Will I somehow merge the rankings of the two?

c) How do i do a 301? which pages? With a wordpress plugin?

Thanks very much in advance for your help.

P.D.: Secondarily, I am open to suggestions on how to improve my SEO strategy (currently, none :)) I am very active in Facebook and have a few good videos and pictures, but I haven't really tried to do good SEO.